are adequately secured. In most cases this means that the Firebird server process should run as its own specific operating system user and only that user (and probably the administrator/root user) should database confidential. The fear may be that the users will reverse- engineer the database for their own purposes, or that these remote sites will fail to maintain the security necessary to prevent unauthorised There is really only one possible solution to these requests: Host the database and server at your own site and let the clients connect to your server remotely, through dial-up or Internet facilities etc

commercial purposes. You may also redistribute the software, separately or with a product of your own, but you may not claim ownership or credit for it. Any license notices included with Firebird must larger work and distribute that larger work, in source and/or compiled form, under a license of your own choosing. You need not publicize the source code for the entire larger work, but you must fulfill undoubtedly wind up in various Linux distributions and their online repositories. These will have their own naming schemes. 3.2. Installing the Firebird server 3.2.1. Before installation  If you’re installing

commercial purposes. You may also redistribute the software, separately or with a product of your own, but you may not claim ownership or credit for it. Any license notices included with Firebird must larger work and distribute that larger work, in source and/or compiled form, under a license of your own choosing. You need not publicize the source code for the entire larger work, but you must fulfill the Server Superserver Processes Creates a separate process for every client connection, each with its own cache. Less resource use if the number of connections is low. A single process serves all connections

accounts in the security database A non-privileged user can retrieve or modify only its own account and it can change its own password. Remote attachments to the server without a login and password are now prohibited (Keywords) A number of new reserved keywords are introduced. The full list is available in a chapter of its own in the accompanying Release Notes and also in Firebird's CVS tree in /doc/sql.extentions/README.keywords daemon creates a separate fb_inet_server process for each successful connection. Each process has its own private page cache and, on 32-bit systems, can use up to 2 GB of RAM. • Superserver is a process named

whether the server is 32-bit or 64- bit. (The internal structures related to BLOBs maintain their own 4-byte counters.) For a page size of 4 KB (4096 bytes) the maximum size is lower — slightly less than higher the precedence of the operator type is, the earlier it will be evaluated. Each operator has its own precedence within its type, that determines the order in which they are evaluated in an expression '[[:DIGIT:]^4-8]' -- false Lastly, the already mentioned wildcard ‘_’ is a character class of its own, matching any single character. Quantifiers A question mark (‘?’) immediately following a character

whether the server is 32-bit or 64- bit. (The internal structures related to BLOBs maintain their own 4-byte counters.) For a page size of 4 KB (4096 bytes) the maximum size is lower — slightly less than higher the precedence of the operator type is, the earlier it will be evaluated. Each operator has its own precedence within its type, that determines the order in which they are evaluated in an expression '[[:DIGIT:]^4-8]' -- false Lastly, the already mentioned wildcard ‘_’ is a character class of its own, matching any single character. Chapter 4. Common Language Elements 93 Quantifiers A question

Available on both Windows and Linux. Creates a process for each client connec- tion, each with its own cache. Less re- source use if the number of connections is low. Single server process with a separate localhost: to the path, the server process (with Firebird 1.0 usually running as root) will create and own the file. The database will be created and, after a few moments, the SQL prompt will reappear. You enable the API routines to locate the messages. Firebird SQL Every database management system has its own idiosyncrasies in the ways it implements SQL. Fire- bird adheres to the SQL standard more rigorously

ie all those accounts not listed above, can only see their own user details from version 2.0 of Firebird. They can, however, change their own passwords with the new version. Previously the SYSDBA had Chapter 7. Gsec caveats The following is a brief list of gotchas and funnies that I have detected in my own use of gsec. Some of these are mentioned above, others may not be. By collecting them all here in version 2 onwards, there are slight changes to the above. Normal users are now able to change their own passwords and can no longer display details of other users that may be present in the security database

RDB$EXCEPTIONS 4 1 RDB$CONSTRAINT_NAME 5 1 RDB$FIELD_NAME 6 1 RDB$INDEX_NAME 7 1 RDB$TRIGGER_NAME 8 1 MY_OWN_GENERATOR 9 NULL  Firebird 2 notes • Firebird 2 saw the introduction of an additional system generator before, there are 8 or 9 system generators in the database, leaving room for at least 32758 of your own. This should be amply enough for any practical application. And since the number of generators you after the Insert, but in multi-user environments you cannot be really sure that what you get is your own row’s ID (because of the transaction issue). But if you get a new value from the generator before

example, MySQL, also use isql as a utility name, you are advised to run the Firebird utility from its own directory, or provide the absolute file path if you have another relational database, besides Firebird down into any other command, the effect is exactly the same as executing the HELP command on its own.  In the output from HELP SET, there doesn’t appear to be any help on the SET TRANSACTION command localhost: to the path, the server process, with Firebird running as user firebird, will create and own the file. To test the newly created database type: SQL>SELECT RDB$RELATION_ID FROM RDB$DATABASE;